10 things...

Unemployed life is a strange, and maybe really interested life. 

There are days when nothing happens, and others when you have so many things happening in the same time that you don't know how to do.

Few months ago, I went back to the Job Center and got a lot of problems with them (cuz they didn't want to give me my benefits....)

It looks like 4 months passed between my new subscription and today. So, few weeks (or days) ago, I got an email alert about a meeting with my new JC-counsellor ! You have no idea how happy I was ! (of course, there is nothing but irony in this last sentence !)

A week after this alert, a new one, to remind me that meeting. NO KIDDING man, as if I forgot that torture ????!!!

Last Sunday, cuz the meeting was on Monday afternoon, third alert, still to remind me ! 

On Monday afternoon, I left for my meeting, happy as, happy as nothing.
I admit, I was five minutes late (not my fault, before leaving, I was still working on a JB-poster !), but the guy arrived around 15 maybe 20 minutes late. So, the 30 minutes-meeting became a 10 minutes-meeting. WOW ! So professional !

The guy checked my profile and explained me everything. I wanted to say "hey buddy, it's not the first time I come, I know what those meetings mean, I know what I have to do, and what you have to do, I know what kind of meeting we can have, what help you can give, blablabla. Forget about that and tell me if there are some new offers..." I didn't and let him explain me what Job Center is.

He asked me to talk about myself, my résumé, my career. He wrote down some insignificant details on a piece of paper, I used some typical words from my professional-world, and he said nothing. So, I'm not sure he really understood what I was talking about, cuz, one more time it's a counsellor who asks nothing ! How is he supposed to help me if he asks nothing but only suggest JC-help-programs ?

Anyway, he gave me a new meeting, the march one, and he asked me if I was interested by Community Manager. I realised, at this moment, that one more time, I was with a counsellor who doesn't know the jobs, or doesn't listen. 

Community Manager is an interesting job, but it's absolutely not what I'm looking for. It's a real job different from mine, cuz as CM you also have to speak HTML and CSS language, thing that I don't have...

I wonder if JC-counsellors read the little Job-note they send us.... 

So, on Monday afternoon, and as every time I have a meeting there, I had the feeling to lose my time, and spent more time going there and come back home than sitting at the meeting ! Wonderful.
After that, I was back to a JB-poster, and honestly, I don't know if it's really done or not. I had to make so many changes that I don't know.

Later Monday, I had a sweet surprise. Few minutes before turning off the computer, I saw on Facebook a JB-notification talking about updates on the website.

I checked, and what I saw was one of my flyers on the home page. Flyer with my name on it.
The only problem is that, even if I really like it, I didn't know it will be online there, and I wanted to change some details... But, no. I think that I'm living in a Photoshop-dictature.... :)

The next day, so, Tuesday, was pretty calm. Good point cuz I still needed to change the poster, to check some contacts, etc, etc... And, I don't know why, one brilliant idea came to me. It involves an upcoming band and a record company in Versailles where I was an intern few years ago... 

Anyway, an email or two later, the record company answer that they love what they heard and that we should talk about it. Tada, meeting on Wednesday morning.
I spent the rest of my Tuesday finishing Press-Release, bios, roster, discs, awesome.

On Wednesday morning, the meeting. OMG, 90 minutes !!!!!! The guys had a lot to say, ask, suggest, it was wonderful. The only problem is that the band just left for a tour in Texas, I don't remember when they exactly come back. It was a very very good meeting, and I think that all the people involved in this may win. Only regret, I know the band since few months, the label since 5 or 6 years (yes, my first internship in Music Industry !!), and I think about a professional thing between them only now !!!! Stupid girl !!

Now, I guess that you're wondering what's the band I'm talking about... Well, you know two members... The band is Royal Foundlings, the label, Rejoyce. I can't wait to see what's next !!

(c) Royal Foundlings

After that very lonnggggggg meeting, I went back home for a quick lunch before leaving for a second meeting. That time, I was meeting one of my Dad's co-worker. We spent more than an hour talking about my résumé and how I'm looking for a job, how JC is not helping me, but how my company brings a lot to my professional profile.... It was really really interesting, and my mission today (after that post and getting dress...) is to re-write a part of my résumé... Now I wonder why JC doesn't have people like this woman ? Maybe it will be easier for candidates, and maybe they will not lose hope, like me sometimes. 

When I left, I saw I had a missing call on my mobile, an unknown number. I listened to the voicemail and realised it was one of the company who got my résumé/appliance the day before. They want to meet me. That's a very very good news. The interview is later this afternoon. 

One "problem" is that it's a specific contract, not exactly the same I had with the Orchestra, and I don't know if I'm eligible to it or not. I pretty sure I am, but you know, here in France, JC loves to change the criterion without telling it to candidates... (well, it's not really Job Center who decides it, but the Ministry.... but, for me it's them same, you can't change criterion without informing candidates and companies !) So, what I did is sending an email to my counsellor to ask him if I'm eligible or not.
Of course, I sent the email after 18:00 yesterday, so, very very late for people who works at JC-and-who-leave-at-17h.... and no answer yet (it's 10:41.... I said it was really important and that the meeting was today !). I'm glad I have the email, the phone number would have been better, but... I should consider myself as supa-lucky to have, at least, the email !!!! (another stupid thing about JC, you can't contact your counsellor except by going there ! So easy when you can't go or don't have the time or whatever !)

Anyway, yesterday was an amazing day with only good news, until I went home and discovered that I had to change other details on another poster. I became angry cuz all those stupid details make me lose a lottttt of time. I'm really late on other stuff for the bands in France, and now I'm kinda losing my nerves, cuz I know that the posters will never be printed, if it's not printed, it will never be sold, so, people will not give a real attention to it, so : WHY ? 

I had a lot of ideas to create all those posters, and now, after all the changes I had to do makes that I don't recognize my initial idea, and I'm kinda sad. I think that people can't understand how frustrating it can be to change everything all the time. I'm sorry to say that it's not my work anymore cuz I had to change all my ideas and so the things I like, it's not my font-choices anymore, or my colour-choices... Too bad.

Today is Thursday. It's 10:49, I'm waiting for an answer from Job Center-guy, and for, maybe, new changes to do.... I will keep you update for all the results, don't worry ! :)

titled 10 things because I was thinking about that video, some points reminded me some relationship I had, I wanted to post the video and finally changed my mind, cuz today, whatever happens, I wanna feel good !!